Math in Everyday Life

Math in Everyday Life Transcript
Jeanne Wright: Math is in our everyday world and we need to know how to do math and we need to have those reasoning abilities. So, when we have math in here, they will her me talking about - what do you notice? What do you see?
Jeanne Wright: You know what I notice? Does anyone else notice something that they've seen in their world before? What have you noticed? Juliana?
Student: It's like on a dice.
Jeanne Wright: It's like on a dice so I know that there's 5. So, we had 5...
Jeanne Wright: I'm getting them to tryto make sense of their world and math.
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Jeanne Wright: It's a lot more exploration and explaining with Common Core. It's not just about work sheets.
Jeanne Wright: Ok, go and put your journals away. Come on over for math.
Jeanne Wright: Teachers already know their students, they know their dislikes, their likes, what candy bars they like, things that motivate them. So that's what you use in the situational stories - that's what you use to bring that personalization to the lesson. A sporting event. A favorite team. A rivalry. Any of those things that can then make it a real world example for the students.
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Jeanne Wright: Am I gonna buy 3 containers? Am I gonna buy 15 containers. I could buy 6 or I could buy 5. What do you think my best choice would be? And you gotta tell me why.
Student: I think you should buy 3 containers because it's the cheapest way.
Jeanne Wright: It's in our everyday. It's in every aspect of our life. So the more comfortable we are with it, the better we're gonna teach it and then the better they're gonna learn it and they're gonna see more examples and then their math is gonna grow.

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